A comparison of 40 years of SBUV measurements of column ozone with data from the Dobson/Brewer network

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 7370-7378

  Labow, Gordon J ^a,b   McPeters, Richard D ^b   Bhartia, Pawan K ^b   Kramarova, Natalya ^a  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

ozone

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BACKSCATTERING; DATA HANDLING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SATELLITES; SCANNING;

COLUMN MEASUREMENTS; DOBSON SPECTROPHOTOMETER; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; SOLAR ZENITH ANGLE; TIME-SERIES COMPARISONS; TOTAL COLUMN OZONE; TOTAL OZONE DATA; TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER;

OZONE;

ALGORITHM; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; LATITUDE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NOAA SATELLITE; OPTIMIZATION; OZONE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CENTRAL LUZON; LUZON; MOUNT PINATUBO; PHILIPPINES; ZAMBALES;

PINATUBO;

EID: 84880876696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50503     Document Type: Article

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